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From: Herbert Xu <herbert-lOAM2aK0SrRLBo1qDEOMRrpzq4S04n8Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:20:08 +0800
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> 
> Probably tangential, but Herbert, is the call to synchronize_rcu() in
> dev_deactivate() really correct?

Yes it's still correct as of today's tree.  Of course patches
such as preemptible RCU may change things but they'll need to
audit this anyway.

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